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  • Sept. 11: US Nice Guy says 'enough' (Long but VERY good read)

    09/07/2002 8:28:52 PM PDT · by What Is Ain't · 51 replies · 1,595+ views
    UPI ^ | 09/07/02 | Martin Walker
    MUNICH (UPI) -- There is a theory in the Arab world, frequently aired on the TV discussion shows of Qatar's Al-Jazeera news channel, that the real impact of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 was less the 3,000 dead than the devastation wreaked on the American and broader Western economy. In this grisly arithmetic of terror, the $7 trillion knocked off the value of American stocks, the body blows to the airline industry, the rise in the oil price and the global slowdown, targeted with gruesome precision the true vulnerability of American power. Osama bin Laden was not just the...